Improvement in umbrellas



WALTER WATSON, OF FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLAs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,899, dated July 11, 1871.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER WATSON, of Fayetteville, in the county of Cumberland and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Umbrellas and Parasols; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to Vthe accompanying drawing forming part of this specication, in which- Figure l represents a side view, partly in section, of my improved umbrella. Fig; 2 is a horizontal section ofthe same on the line a b, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists in improving umbrellas and parasols, as hereinafter fully described and subsequently pointed out in the claim.

A in the drawing represents the stick of the umbrella or parasol. B is the upper sleeve, firmly secured to the stick, to connect the inner ends of the ribs C O with the same. D is the slide, put loose upon the stick and holding' the inner ends of the braces yE E. The inner ends ofthe ribs are provided with balls, which are fitted through apertures e in the side of the sleeve and drawn into an enlargement, c, of the same, which is slotted, as shown, to let the ribs pass through, but retain the balls. A conical or cylindrical ring, d,

is secured upon the stick within the sleeve after the ribs are to be detached from the stick the screws f are drawn out andthe ring d taken of,

whe'n the balls can be put through the apertures e. While connected the ribs play freelyy on the ball-joints. The braces E have balls g h at both ends. The balls g at their inner ends are inserted through apertures e of the slide into an enlargement, c, of the same kind and style as described for the sleeve. A ring, i, is inserted within the slide to coniine the balls to the enlargement, and is held in place by a projecting'.

pin, j, which supports it on an inner shoulder of the slide. The ring fr' is introduced through the lower end of the slide, the pin j entering through a slot in the shoulder, and is then turned to carry the pin to the side of the slot and Vprevent the ring from dropping out. The balls h at the outer ends ofthe braces are held between clasps k k, which are affixed to the ribs, as shown. Each clasp k is made in form of a hollow sphere, and slotted to form two wings, as shown, which can be bent apart to admit the balls and then closed over them, as shown.

H. ving thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A sleeve, having apertures c and slotted enlargement c, combined with detachable conical ring d, screws j', stick A, and ball-ended ribs O, all constructed as and for the purpose specified.

2. The movable slide D, having apertures and enlargements c, combined with ring t', pin j, stick A, and ballended braces E, all constructed as and for the purpose described.

WALTER VATSON.

Witnesses:

GEO. M. RosE, D. S. MAULTsBY. 

